Want

[Pete M]

[JeepcoMJ]

Seconded

[lil_loco]

Please yes

[nitroxsteve]

Why didn't I think of that..

[Incommando]

The awesome sound of those...

[yellaheep]

Aren't those air cooled?.... As in they need the propeller and air movement?

[jimoshel]

Impressive but not practical. :doh: :dunno: :hmm:

[ftpiercecracker1]

What the heel am i looking at? :hmm:

[COFFMAN]

I'll bite ^ what we looking at

[Pete M]

looks to be a 14 cylinder radial aircraft engine being swapped into an old truck (Studebaker?)  :brows:

[jimoshel]

Pete. That's a 7 cylinder radial. Two pushrods per cylinder. Notice they're off set. I'm still working on identifying it. So far it's a toss up between a early Continental or a LeRhone. The truck is a '39 or '40 Plymouth. although it may be a Dodge. They were similiar. It's either a show truck or a dragster. but certainly not a DD.

[jimoshel]

Just confirmed. Truck is a 1939 Plymouth. Now to identify the engine.

[yxmj]

Just out of curiosity...What HP rating would a 7 cylinder radial have?

[jimoshel]

The smaller ones would be 'around' 150HP. The larger ones around 450.

[HOrnbrod]

Yep, 39 Plymouth. Good eye Jim.  :cheers:   Thought it was a 38 International at first like the one below.

 

[dasbulliwagen]

Jesse James built a radial engined motorcycle several years back. Those things are awesome!

[HOrnbrod]

Smog this:

 

[COFFMAN]

Me thinking it's a waste of some fine pressed steel. The orange one is oh so sweet..

[Keyav8r]

If that shop were cleaner and neater I could suspect that it was a Jay Leno project. Just the kind of off the wall build he would do. If you've got a Toronado with two engines, steam cars and a tank engined roadster, why not a radial engined pick-up truck?